Feidin Santana, the 23-year-old man who caught the murder of Walter Scott on his cell phone camera as he was passing by in North Charleston, South Carolina on Saturday, has now spoken out about the ordeal and what instigated him to begin filming the incident as it unraveled.
Santana was walking to his job when he saw a police officer, Michael Slager, 33, in pursuit of 50-year-old Walter Scott. He saw the officer chase after Scott, after which Santana decided to hang up his phone call and begin filming.
According to Santana....
“I was hearing the Taser sound,” he said, “and the yelling of Mr. Scott, and that’s when I decided to do the recording.”
“I remember the police [officer] had control of the situation,” he said. “He had control of Scott. And Scott was trying just to get away from the Taser. But like I said, he never used the Taser against the cop.”
"I felt that my life, with this information, might be in danger. I thought about erasing the video and just getting out of the community, you know Charleston, and living some place else,"
"I knew the cop didn't do the right thing."
"I say life changed in a matter of seconds. I never thought this would happen, that I would be a witness,"
"I'm still scared."
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